Chapter 1290

Compared to Yenaifa's panic, Nai Ge Li Si and the others were even more shocked: "Why are there still black-spotted scales on the regenerated foot?"

Uersman pondered and said: "It's very likely this isn't an infectious disease, but a bloodline disease."

"What is a bloodline disease?" Nai Ge Li Si asked, puzzled.

Uersman scratched his head and gave an example: "It's like someone who has two penises; even if you cut them all off and treat him, after he's cured, he will still grow two penises, and not just one."

All the biological creatures with genders present couldn't help but clench their legs, and Nai Ge Li Si said painfully: "Why do you have to give such an example? I am the God of Knowledge; your example will become knowledge and enter my brain. From now on, whenever I think of bloodline disease, I will think of cutting penises. You have polluted my knowledge base; hurry up and change it, change it."

Uersman had no choice but to change it: "For example, congenital heart disease, congenital polydactyly, albinism, etc. All congenital diseases are bloodline diseases. Well, you can't call them diseases; some congenital ones that don't affect life aren't called diseases. For example, Dragon Men growing scales—is this called a disease? Only those that affect life and endanger life are called diseases; otherwise, they can only be called bloodline characteristics."

"So, these black scale spots are the bloodline characteristics of the Dragon Men?" Nai Ge Li Si summarized.

Yenaifa refuted on the spot: "Impossible! We never had them before, but after fighting the Tricky Tree, we started growing spots and losing scales one after another. If it were a disease carried by the bloodline, why didn't we have it before, and only have it now?"

Yenaifa couldn't help but panic. If the Black Scale Disease were infectious, staying away from its wife and children could avoid infection. But if it were carried in the bloodline, wouldn't that mean its wife and children were already sick, just that it hadn't broken out yet?

Uersman said: "If it's a bloodline disease, the greatest possibility that you never had it before is that something suppressed its appearance. What suppressed it? Before the Black Scale Disease appeared, did any major changes occur in your tribe?"

"We had a battle with the Tricky Tree," Yenaifa said.

"Besides this?" Uersman asked.

Yenaifa frowned and thought hard, its brow scales twisting into a ball, but it couldn't think of anything. Just then, Ge Li Li in the distance raised her hand and said weakly: "Does leaving a certain place count?"

Uersman said: "Of course it counts. Leaving a familiar place, eating different food, drinking different water, and basking in different sunlight can all cause acclimatization issues leading to illness."

Ge Li Li said: "The Black Scale Disease only appeared three years after we left the Ancestral Tomb."

Anthony had a better memory and frowned: "That's not right. It said before that many people were infected, which is why you lost the location of the Ancestral Tomb, and it only appeared three years later? Acclimatization issues shouldn't take three years to show symptoms, right?"

Ge Li Li said: "No, because of the battle, many people didn't have time to return to the Ancestral Tomb to offer sacrifices. I've observed that every single tribesman who got sick had left the Ancestral Tomb for at least three years."

"You've observed this?" Anthony looked Ge Li Li up and down, seemingly weighing the credibility of her words.

Seeing this, Uersman simply said: "It's possible for acclimatization issues to appear after three years. This is the survival of the fittest in the void; it might take three years for them to reach other places. Hello, Ms. Ge Li Li, may I ask you to verify your observation ability?"

Getting Ge Li Li's permission, Uersman began to display some patterns—some curved, some straight, some twisted, some messy. After displaying a dozen or so, Uersman asked: "May I ask what symbol is in all the patterns displayed just now?"

Ge Li Li replied: "One symbol like this." She gestured a double-cross element.

Uersman nodded and displayed some patterns of experimental apparatus, then asked: "In the patterns just now, what same thing appeared in all of them?"

Ge Li Li said affirmatively: "A table."

Nai Ge Li Si, who was testing along, spat out a mouthful of old blood: "A table? Uman, you're cheating people!"

A whole table full of experimental apparatus, and the same thing was the table? This was clearly trying to cheat people.

Uersman spread his hands and said: "It is a table. How did I cheat you? Let's go again."

Then came another set of pictures. This was a set of combat comic strips, a bunch of people watching two swordsmen fighting. The patterns were switching at a rate of one per second. As they switched, the swordsmen's postures became more and more intense, fighting to a standstill.

After a dozen pictures, Uersman asked: "There is a dog in the crowd; what color is it?"

Nai Ge Li Si was about to go crazy. There was a bunch of people in the picture, yet he asked for the color of the dog? Was there a dog? Was there a dog in there?

Nai Ge Li Si looked left and right. Whether it was Lu Se or Flash, both looked blank. Obviously, none of them noticed whether there was a dog in the pattern. Anthony, however, was resting his chin on his hand with a thoughtful expression. He obviously hadn't noticed whether there was a dog either, but he seemed to have analyzed Uersman's routine.

However, Ge Li Li still answered accurately: "Black and white. The ears, eyes, and limbs are black, and the body and face are white."

Uersman couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Observation ability is really good. Any interest in being my student... uh, mixed it up, I thought it was a defense."

After speaking, Uersman nodded to Anthony, acknowledging her observation ability.

Anthony nodded and summarized: "The key to your Black Scale Disease is very likely in the Ancestral Tomb. Let's go to the Ancestral Tomb first to see. What do you mean by losing the location of the Ancestral Tomb?"

"It means we can't find it. The Ancestral Tomb will constantly change the connected dimensional rifts. Sometimes it leads to this rift, sometimes to that rift, and sometimes it closes. Previously, there were always people inside, and we would know which one it was by bloodline resonance. But now there is no one inside, and to find it, we have to search all the rifts."

"If there were no Tricky Trees, we could separate and search slowly, but with Tricky Trees around, any act of going solo is very dangerous," Yenaifa explained.

Anthony asked: "How is the strength of the Tricky Trees? We've been here for so long, and it seems we haven't encountered any Tricky Trees."

"You'll see them when you get to the Ancestral Tomb or the Time Dragon Stele Forest. They occupy the places where we used to live. Their strength is about the same as ours, but there are too many of them, and it's as if they won't die. Every time we kill a batch, after a period of time, their numbers recover. On the contrary, the number of our tribesmen is getting smaller and smaller," Yenaifa said.

Anthony nodded to show he understood. After weighing it, he found Ang to report: "The situation is like this, Lord. I want to go to the Ancestral Tomb to see, and then go to the Time Dragon Stele Forest. I want to mobilize manpower to separate and search for the entrance to the Ancestral Tomb."

Ang was fiddling with the giant compass he had just obtained. This thing was the materialized core that controlled the entire space-time domain. The domain didn't originally have such a thing, but the Dragon God wanted it, so it existed.

Even for a god, when manipulating their own Divine Realm, they need some materialized things to fix operations and deepen memory. Instead of thinking about how to fiddle with it every day, it's better to have a button and press it when you want to use it.

The compass materialized Ang's various godheads into statues. When you need the power of a certain god, just beckon.

After listening to Anthony's report, Ang scratched his head. He had just obtained the compass and wasn't familiar with it yet. He looked left and right before pointing in one direction. Following Ang's finger, a portal split open on the platform in that direction.

Anthony clapped his hands. Good, no need to search now.

(End of chapter)